The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-28

a. Jefferson whio. are manifest dis.
torton, % tlo truth. DR.. Carroll
maxi. Jefferson cay hat lis first two
preocptors. MIR. Douglas aud Mr..
Maury Net. preachers, and that
"ul-6JI.l youtu of nineteen wears.
entered william and Maury College.
where was instructed in mathcmat-
ic- the -c'. res, ethics, rhetoric and
belle, lcurD.. Ny teacher again was
preacher, Dr. VIM small This
preacher liked the dcstnic- OF my
life
perhap- DR. CAROLS lyle of
quoting Jefferson m' 1nt be justified
by close conformance to what JEFF
tcr-ou ay- in bis autobiography, but
. when such liberty is taken with the
taNtu4 10 make J.Hcr-On call DR..
VIM ~maI u preacher. we must pro-
test iu 'hc name oftruiu Mr. Jcilcr.
son loes not call DR.. small preach.
err. melt .r does Mr.. Geo Fucker
hin, at any prie-tly daiiu- tor the
scotch professor. That he was o.
doctor of divinity noes not appear
from anything Jefferson said TINT Sc
can recall W viii thank Dr. Car
roll tor his authority tor making JET
fer On Say Dr. Small WAS preacher
Jcncr.ou -ays be was q man Of "en-
largcd and liberal mind" tits Ger
tain that Dr small introduced Jet
lerson to Gcorge Wythe, Undcr
whom he read law man according
10 Je'ler.on of -kcptical proc.iyi'ie-,
bur
"Nci'hcr troubling nor perhaps
trusting amy one vita bis religious
creed
Dr small also introduced young
jefferson to the acquaintance ami ia.
mi.lar table Of Governor lauquier,t the
ablcs man who Ind ever filed That Of
leo and according to John Randolph
"a follower Of Shaftc-bury and
Bolingbrokc IN morals and religion.
From these associations with
-. iuudc-. the vol known iuddcit
of jefferson himself nd his adj
mi--iC-l OF the influence Of DR. omall
upon NJ dc.linics. wc had always
presumed that pr small wga al-o an
uhdcl, whether doctor OF divinity
orr ot-two facts by no mcaus neon
..tout.
MIR Carroll IN Ike o worry pretty
i thing out OF the resolution fora day
of fasting. humiliation and prayer,
:. ordered by the House of iurgcs-cs
before the at for establishing rclig-
n ious freedom was ever dreamed Of
Mr.. Jefferson say tina, the young
- members Of the House determined to
% alarm the country obout the Boston
DO port bill.
p "With the help, therefore, of l;ush-
% worth, whom we ruumNged over for
revolutionary prcccdent- and forms
t. OF he Puritans OF mat day, preserved
70 by him, Vc cooked up resolution,
-0moV hat modcrniliug heir phrases,
for appointing the first day of June
j. ON which the port hill was to com.
mcucp. tor day OF fasting, huuii9-
b. ton ami prayer, etc. To give greater
emphasis to our proposition, agreed
- e. wait the next morning on Mr.
? Nicholas, whose grave aud religious
character was more in unison with
tho tone of our rC.olut ON, and 10 So
,icit him to move it, We accordingly
went to him in tho morning. He
! moved it the same day.
so Mr.. Jefferson did not call the day
% of fssiing then, but used man Of
@ grave aud religious character to do it
Mr.. Jefferson was then thiity-thrcc
n years Of age. when president nj the
=, age of iiltty-nne he wrote DR.. Lin
coin with regard to an address sent
him by some Bapusts, many years
after the great act for religious free
dom WAS passed, and said
"lhc Baptist address now enclosed
admits of q condemnation of the NJ
lance between church and state, un>
der the constitution. II furnishes an
occasion, too, which have long
a wished to find of saving why do not
- proclaim la,tiugs end thanksgiNings
- as my predecessors did. know
il viii give otleu-c TO the New Eng
land clergy, but tho advocate OF reli-
a giou- freedom is 10 expect no peace
nor forgiveness from them. You
understand the temper ofthosc in the
lorth. and can woaNCu II, therefore, TO
i their stomach.; it IL ut present sea-
. -ouod to the southern tasto only
lutui- Jefferson alludcs to the lib
crality OF the Virginia Bapiists, who
u had consented tha' the nauo of Jesus
3 be stricken from the ttt for religious
= freedom. We hardly thiuk Or. Car
s roll would even now agree to "a prop
q osition Of that kind, unless hei gong
oyer entirely to Muhommcdsnism,
the totai abstinence religion. Follow
ing Mr. Jefferson, GOV, Roberts, OF
Texas, always refused o appoint DAYS
OF tasting and prayer; and in u great